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018: STRATHFIELD IN THE RAIN - REVISITED Times change, the demographic broadens... but memories of 'how it was' remains.' Steamy, silent streets of Strathfield wake and shimme… Started by Dermott Ryder	0	Sep 19, 2014
017: CROSSING THE MALL I watched her flip-flopping through the mall, hurrying with trepidation to the welfare office, her black and white striped dress stretched… Started by Dermott Ryder	0	Sep 16, 2014
016: CHANGING TIMES This is for Second-Hand Harry and Chip-Fat Franco. The neat, second-hand furniture shop has gone, I got my bookshelves there. If I presse… Started by Dermott Ryder	0	Sep 10, 2014
NO BOZOS! No bozos please, or floppy shoes, No three ring capers for the ignorant fools No ring top connivance, or a multicoloured facade No squirti… Started by Thomas Kotsonis	0	Sep 10, 2014
015: MAY YOU NEVER This is dedicated to the memory of Iain David McGeachy, known to most as John Martyn who, at the far too young age of sixty years, made his… Started by Dermott Ryder	0	Sep 8, 2014
014: MORNING GLORY Porridge? With one banana, mashed and mixed? Yes… sounds good. Steaming hot and aromatic. Do you make your porridge with one banana?… Started by Dermott Ryder	2	Sep 8, 2014 Reply by Dermott Ryder
BOSTON 1919 I still walk through the sticky goo,A pallid apparition meanderingAround the old rail yards, Where the decrepit tank blew!We all knew that… Started by Thomas Kotsonis	2	Sep 8, 2014 Reply by Thomas Kotsonis
013: THAT VOICE For William Carlos Williams... On the paper-white slim screen I watch the weaving of waves and listen, tortured, as the words fall upon m… Started by Dermott Ryder	0	Aug 30, 2014
012: SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI For David Michael Gordon Graham [1940–2008] He can’t play the seminal guitar today. Can’t sing or yell, amphetamine voiced, in low Dutch,… Started by Dermott Ryder	0	Aug 28, 2014
011: POETRY WORKSHOP Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Robert Frost [1874-1963]. They gave him a very hard time, your poems, they s… Started by Dermott Ryder	0	Aug 26, 2014